mesmerizeとは

語源

Back-formation from mesmerism, thus mesmerism +‎ -ize; first attested in 1829.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛzməɹaɪz/

動詞

mesmerize (三人称単数 現在形 mesmerizes, 現在分詞 mesmerizing, 過去形および過去分詞形 mesmerized)

1. To exercise mesmerism on; to spellbind; to enthrall.
   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 4, in Mr. Pratt's Patients, page 99:

     Then he commenced to talk, really talk, and inside of two flaps of a herring’s fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt’s boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.

   She mesmerized the audience with her tricks

同意語

• (exercise mesmerism on): spellbind, hypnotize, enthrall, fascinate

参考

• hypnotize

Further reading

• mesmerize in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• mesmerize in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911